Adventures As Me

Applications that steal focus are the bane of my computer experience. Particularly egregious are the ’sudo’ type authentication dialogs on the OS X platform. On a multi-monitor setup ( which I have at work ) these dialogs remove the focus to a place where one is not looking. It is too easy to continue type [...]

Just a simple post. Emacs is still my main editor. The real question is: how much have I edited? Answer: very little.

Five years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Combating Comment Spam” It amuses me that this post attracts the most comment spam than any other post on this site. The spam ratio is easily 100:1

Words fail me to express the extent of failure this movie achieves. Watching it, I had the sense that the story line of canceling the protagonist’s movie was the unvoiced request of the directors plea to halt the production of this trash.

My workplace recently bequeathed a G5 Mac to me, my first “real” Apple computer. With it came two mice:

A mighty mouse
A wireless mighty mouse
After using the Mighty Mouse for a couple months, I can honestly say this is the worst mouse design I’ve everused. Oh, don’t get me wrong, aesthetically, the mice are [...]